Distributer for pulverized substances.



S. W. FARNHAM. DISTBIBUTER FOR PULVERIZED SUBSTANOES.

APPLICATION FILED D30. 5, 1908.

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SIMKINS WALTON FARNHAM, OF ST. STEPHEN, NEW BRUNSWICK, CANADA.

DISTRIBUTER FOR PULVERIZED SUBSTANCES.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented June 8, 1909.

Application filed December 5, 1908; Serial No. 66,125.

T 0 all whom a may concern: 1

Be it known that I, SIMKINS WALTON FARNHAM, a subject of the King ofGreat Britain, residing in the city of St. Stephen, in the Province of New Brunswick, in the Dominion of Canada, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Distributers for Pulverized Substances; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the same.

The invention relates to improvements in distributers for pulverized substances, as described in the present specification and illustrated in the accompanying drawings which form part of the same.

The invention consists essentially in the novel arrangement and construction of parts, whereby means are employed for automatically rapping rotating powder casings during the operation of the machine.

The objects of the invention are to distribute the powder evenly over the plants, notwithstanding the condition of said powder in a moist atmosphere, and generally to provide a simple and efi'ective device for clearing the clogged holes of the distributing cylinders from obstructing matter.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view of the machine. Fig. 2 is a plan view partially in section.

Like numerals of reference indicate corresponding parts in each figure.

Referring to the drawings, 1 are perforated cylindrical casings for the powder having the hinged lids 2 for closing suitable charge openings, said lids being suitably hinged and fastened.

3 is a shaft supporting the casings 1.

4 is a frame supporting bearings 5 at the lower end of its vertical sides, said shaft 3 being journaled in said bearings 5.

6 is a frame forming the standard of the machine. 7 are the handles secured to the frame 6.

8 is a fork projecting forwardly from the frame 6.

9 is a wheel having the spokes 10.

11 is a shaft journaled in the bearings 12 at the end of the fork 8 and on which the wheel 9 is fixedly mounted.

13 is a chain and sprocket mechanism operatively connecting the shafts 11 and 3.

14 are lugs having the eyes 15, the latter forming bearings, said lugs being secured to the fork 8 adjacent to the bearings 12.

16 are lugs secured to the vertical pieces the frame 4 substantially in alinement with the peripheries of the casings l on the upper sidethereof, said lugs having the eyes 17, the latter forming bearings.

18 are angle rods having the longer sections 19 and the shorter sections 20 joined by the intermediate sections 21, said intermediate sections 21 being journaled in the bearings formed by the eyes 15 and 17 insuring the projection of the short sections 20 between the spokes 10 and the extension of the longer sections 10 along the peripheries of the casings 1.

22 are hooks suspended from the horizontal section of the frame 6 and supporting the rods 18 when the latter are out of engagement with the wheel 9.

In the operation of this invention, the machine is guided by the handle or in any other suitable manner and pushed or pulled over the beds of plants and as the wheel turns, each spoke engages the short sections 20 of the rods 18 constantly turning said rods in their bearings and tipping upwardly the longer sect-ions 19, said short sections falling back between the spokes and rapping the casings 1, thus removing all clogging substances from the holes, as it has been proved in experimenting that a slight rap will effectively keep the powder running through the perforations in said casings.

Vhat I claim as my invention is:

1. In. distributers for pulverized sub stances, the combination with the frame, a running gear and a perforated cylinder, of an angle rod having a shorter section adapted to be engaged by said running gear and a longer section extending over the periphery of said perforated cylinder, an intermediate section and suitable bearings supported by said frame for said intermediate section.

2. In a device of the class described, in combination, a frame, a wheel supported from said frame and having suitable spokes, a plurality of rotating perforated cylinders suitably supported in said frame and operatively connected to said wheel, a plurality of angle rods having shorter sections extending between the spokes of said wheel and longer sections extending over the peripheries of said perforated cylinders and suit able bearings from said frame supporting the intermediate sections of said rods.

3. In a device of the class described, in combination, a frame having a forked mem ber extending forwardly therefrom, a wheel having suitable spokes journaled in said forked member, a plurality of perforated rotating casings suitably supported on said frame and operatively connected to said wheel, a plurality of lugs having eyes forming bearings and extending from said frame a plurality of angular rods having intermediate sections extending through said eyes and shorter sections projecting between the spokes of said wheel, and longer sections extending over the peripheries of said perforated casings, and means for attaching said longer sections to the frame above said casings.

i. In a derice of the class described, in combination, a rotating perforated casing, a carriage supporting said casing, a wheel and means for rapping said casing operated by direct contact with the wheel of the running gear of said carriage during the opera tion of said wheel.

Signed at the city and district otMonti-eah Province of Quebec, Dominion o'lt' Canada this 19th day of November. 1908.

SIMKINS iVALTON FARNHAU.

\Vitnesses H. Davis,

G. H. TRESIDDER. 

